Aeotec Smart Home Hub vs Home Assistant Green

The Aeotec Smart Home Hub edges it overall, winning on price, connectivity and protocols with built-in Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a ready Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread and Matter stack. Home Assistant Green is higher rated and more open, but needs the separate Connect ZBT-1 dongle for Zigbee, Thread and Matter-over-Thread.

Radios out of the box. The Aeotec Smart Home Hub has Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread and Matter built in and works immediately, whereas Home Assistant Green ships with none of those radios on board and requires the Connect ZBT-1 dongle to add Zigbee and Thread. Home Assistant Green, in return, is a fully local, deeply customizable platform.

Home Assistant Green. It runs locally with no mandatory cloud and adds power-user features the Aeotec lacks, such as ONVIF and RTSP cameras, Node-RED and Tailscale. The Aeotec Smart Home Hub is cloud-dependent and cannot be controlled through its app when the internet is down, so it is weaker for strict local control.

Buy the Aeotec Smart Home Hub if you want a hub with Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread and Matter radios built in, plus Wi-Fi and Ethernet, and you prefer the more affordable, plug-in SmartThings experience. It supports up to 100 devices, though it is cloud-dependent.

Choose Home Assistant Green if you want the most open, private, local multi-brand platform and are willing to add the Connect ZBT-1 dongle for Zigbee and Thread and to learn the software. It unifies devices across brands and supports ONVIF, RTSP, Node-RED and Tailscale, but connects over Ethernet only.